Couples Therapy in Sydney: Marriage & Relationship Counselling + Hypnotherapy

The clients we see for relationship, marriage or couple’s therapy seek us out because we provide a different form of therapy to conventional relationship counselling.

Conventional relationship counselling, in a nutshell, is all about awareness, analysis and basically conscious logical mind work to explore and manage relationship issues.

This is all great stuff, if your aim is to just manage your relationship using tools.

What we do in contrast though, is in addition to this, we work with and resolve subconscious influences that may be tainting your communication as well.

This makes relationship, marriage & couples therapy much more effective in terms of making progress.

Relationships involve communication and being able to logically navigate your way through difficult conversations and conflict is both a skill and an art!

Openly discussing what is going awry with a neutral party like us at North Shore & City Hypnotherapy Sydney can be really helpful in identifying and resolving individual issues that are potentially causing problems in your marriage/partnership.

We all have a communication ‘style’, and your style is unique to you (please note the style we refer to is not determined by a questionnaire!)

There are many subconscious influences of your communication style, and your feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, and perceptions stemming from your beliefs, etc., will invariably filter through depending upon where you are and the subject matter.

Communication, though, is a two way street.

How you receive communication, process the information, interpret and respond to it is also highly influenced by your subconscious mind, and any unresolved issues from the past.

These issues may have been festering since early childhood, via messages from family, for example to behave a certain way.

[Example 1]
As a boy, you were told ‘boys don’t cry.’
You interpreted that as ‘boys who cry are weak.’
You make the decision ‘I am a boy, I have cried therefore I am weak, and must not show weakness.’
This can lead to over compensatory behaviour when it is perceived you may be judged to be weak.
So, you become direct and domineering in your communication style, which may intimidate or challenge your partner.

[Example 2]
As a girl, you observed your mother helping and nurturing others.
You were rewarded for the same behaviour.
You may make the decision that ‘nurturing is helpful, it’s the right thing to do.’
Later in life, you may become overprotective, smothering or controlling.
This may disempower your partner, and challenge them to assert their own independence.
This can lead to conflict.

These are very simplistic examples to demonstrate how messages overt or covert, become beliefs, generate thoughts and feelings and can result in communication difficulties.

Whether you want to resolve big issues or small issues in your marriage/partnership, whether you are committed to staying together or not, if you want a way forward we can help you!

Via our Optimal Evolution™ Hypnotherapy System, we begin with hypnotherpeutic counselling, take a comprehensive relationship/partnership/marriage history and observe the dynamics between you both.

From there, we identify key areas that need to be resolved in hypnosis individually for you both to be the way you want to be, and express yourself the way you want to in your relationship/partnership/marriage.

These encompass old beliefs that no longer serve you, as well as thought patterns, feelings and self-talk.

No two relationship issues are the same, though the snapshot may appear identical, what is driving the behaviours and feelings are going to be entirely different because your life experience is unique.

So how do we resolve your relationship/partnership/marriage issues?
Easily and effectively, with our proprietary Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™!

We take you into hypnosis and use various therapies and techniques to unlock and resolve deeper issues, build and reinforce coping strategies, self-esteem, positivity, optimism and seal the deal with a zen-like logical, rational, detached calm.

Every client is different and every Session will be unique, depending on the goal, therapies and techniques used within our Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™.